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Excerpt from The Analectic Magazine, Vol. 4: Containing Selections From Foreign Reviews and Magazines, of Such Articles as Are Most Valuable, Curious, or Entertaining
Thus are introduced upon the stage the leading characters of this drama. The Percy family - in all the members of which are discor ered the sound morality, good sense, and independent spi rit, which are meant to be contrasted by the meanness, folly, and love of patronage abounding in the commissioner and all his gene alogy; and, lastly, the patron himself, whose haughty and com manding qualities, got up after the best patterns in the profession, are relieved by the calm and temperate spirit of the one group, and the cringing falseness of the other. For some time the tale is employed in developing the characters of which we shall after wards speak. The Falconers proceed in the road of promotion. The Percys continue in retirement. In Alfred Percy, a lawyer, and Erasmus, a physician, the same steady and independent spirit is exhibited which distinguishes the father. 'all the Falconers are advanced - Mrs. Falconer and her daughters are the very pink of fashion - Mr. Secretary Cunningham gets promotion - John, a dunce, has advancement in the army; and Buckhurst, a buck par son, havmg consented to take orders to save himself from a gaol, the commissioner's joy is complete.
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